One of these is that the river might have been named after 19th century French scientists, the Cloquet brothers Hipployte and Jules, with the settlement later being named after the river.
Jules Verne | Saint-Germain-en-Laye | Jules Massenet | Saint-Germain-des-Prés | Jules Dassin | Étienne-Jules Marey | Paris Saint-Germain F.C. | Jules Maigret | Saint-Germain | Danny John-Jules | Donovan Germain | Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) | Tabitha St. Germain | Jules Shear | Jules Michelet | Jules Ferry | Jules Dumont d'Urville | Jules Chéret | Jules Bastien-Lepage | Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés | St. Germain | Pierre-Jules Hetzel | Jules Perrot | Jules Olitski | Judge Jules | Marc Germain | Jules Guesde | Jules Feiffer | Jules Edouard Roiné | Jules and Jim |
He was the brother of surgeon Jules Germain Cloquet (1790–1883), and father to Ernest Cloquet (1818–1856), who was a personal physician to Mohammad Shah Qajar of Persia.